U+1F8E "ᾎ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F8E "ᾎ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni is a historical polytonic Greek letter used primarily in ancient and liturgical texts, combining a smooth breathing mark known as psili, a circumflex accent called perispomeni, and a subscript iota known as prosgegrammeni, which is written as a small iota beneath the capital Alpha. This character represents a specific phonetic and grammatical context in which the long vowel alpha carries a rising-falling pitch accent and a smooth aspirate onset while also being followed by a long iota sound, often indicating a feminine noun or adjective in the nominative or accusative case in Classical Greek. It is rarely used in modern Greek writing, which employs monotonic orthography, but it remains essential for accurate scholarly reproduction of ancient Hellenic manuscripts and epigraphic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F8E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἆ" U+1F0E Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f8e |